The Other - An extremely creepy movie about twin brothers that has been criminally forgotten.
The Thing (1982) - Simply the best 'creature feature' I've ever seen. Great ensemble, a fantastic script by Bill Lancaster, and the cinematography is gorgeous. What can you say about those effects? Repulsive.
I'm just about to pop The Other into the old DVD player. Haven't seen it in years and can't remember the plot, but I remember it as a good film.
John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" is brilliant. Probably the best "Creature" type movie (with "Alien") in my view as well (I still have a soft spot for James Arness in the spacesuit). The remake was really a case of movie technology catching up with the original short story, which the remake follows pretty closely.
Here's one for you guys: "The Changeling" with George C. Scott. Not a horror film by any means, but that's a good thing. I like "eerie" films rather than "scary" ones, and this is one of the best "haunted house" pictures ever. Watch it on Halloween.
I recieved a box-set yesterday of vol 2 of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. These are great with numerous famous guest stars. The first episode I watched tonight featured David Mcallum as a surveillance expert attempting to catch a prowler and it was a lot of fun.
There was a spoof documentary in Britain on Halloween night in 1992 called Ghostwatch which scared the living daylights out of some people and caused a lot of controversy. I don't think it'll ever be on again.
I recieved a box-set yesterday of vol 2 of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. These are great with numerous famous guest stars. The first episode I watched tonight featured David Mcallum as a surveillance expert attempting to catch a prowler and it was a lot of fun.
I've never heard of it. Is it a recent TV series in Britain?
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was made in 1984 (the last hammer production to date). Hammer moved into tv at the end of the seventies and made Hammer House Of Horror and then Hammer House Of Mystery and Suspense. The latter consists of twelve 75 minute episodes and was financed by Fox television in America but shot in Britain. You can tell it was a US co-production because actors like Dean Stockwell, Dirk Benidict, and David Carradine(sic?) guest star. On the DVD they say that Fox wanted to make another series but set in the United States and Hammer dug their heels in and insisted on stories set in Britain. They went their seperate ways and Hammer was more or less defunct...until it rises from the grave again one day.
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was made in 1984 (the last hammer production to date). Hammer moved into tv at the end of the seventies and made Hammer House Of Horror and then Hammer House Of Mystery and Suspense. The latter consists of twelve 75 minute episodes and was financed by Fox television in America but shot in Britain. You can tell it was a US co-production because actors like Dean Stockwell, Dirk Benidict, and David Carradine(sic?) guest star. On the DVD they say that Fox wanted to make another series but set in the United States and Hammer dug their heels in and insisted on stories set in Britain. They went their seperate ways and Hammer was more or less defunct...until it rises from the grave again one day.
I'll have to see if I can find the series somewhere. Hammer did make some classic horror films. Their first three Draculas have got to be my favorites. Christopher Lee and those plunging necklines -- didn't get any better than that when I was a teen.
...and Hammer was more or less defunct...until it rises from the grave again one day.
) What an appropriate epitath.
Another very good horror movie is Creepshow, an anthology of three Stephen King short stories about one particularly memorable Father's Day, a henpecked husband who gets a monster to off his domineering wife, and a sadistic, reclusive, foul mouthed businessman (memorably played by the late E.G. Marshall) who has a peculiar fear of bugs. The stories all have a strong injection of dark humor and are as funny as they are gory. Just the thing to watch on Halloween.
Another very good horror movie is Creepshow, an anthology of three Stephen King short stories about one particularly memorable Father's Day, a henpecked husband who gets a monster to off his domineering wife, and a sadistic, reclusive, foul mouthed businessman (memorably played by the late E.G. Marshall) who has a peculiar fear of bugs. The stories all have a strong injection of dark humor and are as funny as they are gory. Just the thing to watch on Halloween.
I've actually seen it, or at least a third of it. What I particularly remember is the part involving the businessman. If there is one thing that gives me the creeps, it's bugs. Ugh! X-(
"He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
I can't watch the final segment of Creepshow because I have a severe cockroach phobia. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life but seeing one on tv is bad enough. The EC comics that Creepshow was based on were quite explicit from what I've read.
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I can't watch the final segment of Creepshow because I have a severe cockroach phobia. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life but seeing one on tv is bad enough. The EC comics that Creepshow was based on were quite explicit from what I've read.
Well if you ever come to the States, Arthur, don't visit Texas during the summer months.
They're mutant sized here and they fight back. Thank goodness I've never had to encounter one on that level yet. )
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I can't watch the final segment of Creepshow because I have a severe cockroach phobia. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life but seeing one on tv is bad enough. The EC comics that Creepshow was based on were quite explicit from what I've read.
Well if you ever come to the States, Arthur, don't visit Texas during the summer months.
They're mutant sized here and they fight back. Thank goodness I've never had to encounter one on that level yet. )
Given the time of year, I'm frankly astonished that no one has made a joke about Daniel Craig Halloween masks on this page yet )
Ah yes, Creepshow, Stephen King and George Romero's masterful take on EC Comics. I always loved "The Crate" with Adrienne Barboobs and Hal Holbrook. "Just tell him to call you Billie!"
Romero teamed up with Dario Argento for another pretty cool anthology called Two Evil Eyes, particularly a segment which looked to be influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. Harvey Keitel and Adrienne Barbeau starred. *love her*
Halloween is my favorite holiday so you've got to watch John Carpenter's original. I'm not the biggest fan of what that classic film ushered in, (slashers), but definitely one that stands the test of time.
And as I'm sure fellow Trekker Tony already knows, the Michael Myers mask was originally a Shatner mask.
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Wasn't there a CREEPSHOW 2? I just can't remember if there was one or not.
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Ah yes, Creepshow, Stephen King and George Romero's masterful take on EC Comics. I always loved "The Crate" with Adrienne Barboobs and Hal Holbrook. "Just tell him to call you Billie!"
I once met makeup guy Tom Savini at a sci-fi convention; he brought along that monster's mask and demonstrated how it worked...and affectionately called it Fluffy.
Romero teamed up with Dario Argento for another pretty cool anthology called Two Evil Eyes, particularly a segment which looked to be influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. Harvey Keitel and Adrienne Barbeau starred. *love her*
Never saw that one; I'll have to look for it. And Adrienne Barbeau is a fave of mine as well (I think I'll put on some highlights from Swamp Thing tonight). :x :x
Halloween is my favorite holiday so you've got to watch John Carpenter's original. I'm not the biggest fan of what that classic film ushered in, (slashers), but definitely one that stands the test of time.
And as I'm sure fellow Trekker Tony already knows, the Michael Myers mask was originally a Shatner mask.
Actually, I do seem to remember reading that somewhere, although they painted out the eyebrows and other features to give the mask a more "blank" look. Too bad they didn't use a Shatner toupee as well, now that would have been scary.
Wasn't there a CREEPSHOW 2? I just can't remember if there was one or not.
Yes, there was. Although it was nowhere near as good as the original. It was a Dino DeLaurentiis production and presented adaptation of some of King's weaker stories. Only one of them (with a pre-pubescent Drew Barrymore) had any supernatural overtones to them. The other two were about a company that helps you quit smoking...or else; and a man forced walk around the ledge of a high-rise building without falling to his death. Overall, very forgettable.
And as I'm sure fellow Trekker Tony already knows, the Michael Myers mask was originally a Shatner mask.
Actually, I do seem to remember reading that somewhere, although they painted out the eyebrows and other features to give the mask a more "blank" look. Too bad they didn't use a Shatner toupee as well, now that would have been scary.
) ) (just watched the roast the other day, but that's an other story.
Wasn't there a CREEPSHOW 2? I just can't remember if there was one or not.
Yes, there was. Although it was nowhere near as good as the original. It was a Dino DeLaurentiis production and presented adaptation of some of King's weaker stories. Only one of them (with a pre-pubescent Drew Barrymore) and any supernatural overtones to them. The other two were about a company that helps you quit smoking ... or else; and a man forced walk around the ledge of a high-rise building without falling to his death. Overall, very forgettable.
Actually you're confusing it with Cat's Eye, I also saw that in the theater. Creepshow 2's first tale had George Kennedy and was entitled "Old Chief WoodenHead". (Good ol' Tom Savini played the creep connecting the beginning and end. (It's all coming back now right?)
Doh!! You're absolutely right, Cat's Eye was the one with the stories I'd mentioned.
I cannot for the life of me remember much about Creepshow 2 other than the one story about some teenagers on a raft menaced by some blob in the lake. It was very faithful to the short story, but in the end rather pointless.
Doh!! You're absolutely right, Catseye was the one with the stories I'd mentioned.
I did like the one with Robert Hayes forced to quit smoking though, just kept expecting him to go into Airplane mode though
The last tale from C2 was a remake of the classic TZ episode of the HitchHiker. Dr. Holly Goodhead just couldn't get away from a hitcher she had run over.
"Hey Lady, how about a ride?" (It was pretty forgettable)
I did like the one with Robert Hayes forced to quit smoking though, just kept expecting him to go into Airplane mode though
I just recently read King's short story that this was based on (Quitters, Inc. or something like that). From what I recall of the segment, it was very faithful to the story...right down to the shot at the end of the woman missing her little finger. Same goes for the one where he was forced to walk around the ledge ( I think that one was called ... "The Ledge" ) )
The recent Nightmares and Dreamscapes anthology that was on TNT also had some very good (and scary) King adaptations. In particular, The Road Virus Heads North (another painting comes to life story) was very very creepy.
Of course, no Halloween evening would be complete without watching It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Watching that on October 31 is a tradition that for me goes back over 30 years and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.
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Took off early today to go check out THE GRUDGE 2. IMO, pretty much up to par with the first one and worth the admission of matinee prices.
Asian horror has that creep factor that I love; I mean one can only take so much of the slasher genre...
I wish American filmakers can get back to actually scaring its audiences without the help of hacking other countries' ideas - or have I become jaded to it all over the years?
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Wow, "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," MBE...that does bring back nightmares! Along with Karen Black post-cooking that creepy little dude in the oven in "Trilogy."
Agree about "Seven," ben, Fincher nailed that genre. Lovely character work in that film.
Best Hammer: "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" I think, they just seemed to be hitting on every cyclinder with that one, even if Lee didn't have one line of dialogue in it. As for those wacky Italian/Bava films, just couldn't get into his 360 degree pans that took a whole reel to complete.
"Night of the Living Dead" may have the best feeling of dread and horror in a film, completely depressing and draining. Also rank highly: "Carpenter's The Thing," "The Exorcist," "Alien," "Cape Fear" (with Peck and Mitchum)...ah, probably not thinking of a bunch of good'uns.
But the scariest movie ever is: "Jaws." Because there ARE things out there that will eat you...and Spielburg did a great job with that story.
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For those interested, I saw this morning on Sci-Fi that they'll be airing a mini-marathon of the old TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE tv series next Monday. Not sure if it's A.M. or P.M. yet; I was in a hurry to leave for work.
I used to watch this all of the time until they got too cheesy close to the end of its run.
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For those interested, I saw this morning on Sci-Fi that they'll be airing a mini-marathon of the old TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE tv series next Monday. Not sure if it's A.M. or P.M. yet; I was in a hurry to leave for work.
I used to watch this all of the time until they got too cheesy close to the end of its run.
I think they air during primetime (8:00pm - 11:00pm); I saw some shows last Monday and thought it was a one-time airing.
I've been reading the Stephen King book Danse Macabre this week and in the section on television he claims that the original The Outer Limits was the best of the weird Twilight Zone style shows. I don't think I've ever seen that show over here. I remember Tales From The Darkside. That was low-budget but creepy if I remember.
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I loved the orginal Outer Limits. It's a quality show, as good as The Twilight Zone but they had differences. It wasn't a show that used black humor nearly as much as TWZ (and it didn't have Serling's wry cynicism or moralizing). It was more dramatic which fit with it's hour format that also gave it the opportunity to explore it's themes more fully. It's top notch Sci-Fi.
I've been reading the Stephen King book Danse Macabre this week and in the section on television he claims that the original The Outer Limits was the best of the weird Twilight Zone style shows. I don't think I've ever seen that show over here. I remember Tales From The Darkside. That was low-budget but creepy if I remember.
Outer Limits was a sci-fi anthology show that aired on US television in the very early 60's. I remember watching it religiously in reruns when I was in my teens. Many of the stories were written by respected science fiction authors. I'd strongly urge to to check them out if you can. There was also a new series made in the mid 90's that was utterly forgettable and a poor followup to the original.
Here's a page that lists all the episodes; click on each one to get a brief summary. Some of my favorites include Demon With a Glass Hand, The Man Who Was Never Born, The Sixth Finger, The Zanti Misfits, Soldier and I, Robot.
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Anyone like the Phantasm movies? I thought that the first two were great; the last two in the franchise were highly unecessary.
Also, another film by Don Coscarelli, BUBBA HO TEP which was supposed to have horrific but comedic undertones. Has anyone seen this one? It has never come on cable and it's just hard to find at the local video shop.
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Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice isUNISEX!"
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There was also a new series made in the mid 90's that was utterly forgettable and a poor followup to the original.
I saw the 90's series of The Outer Limits, and while it was undoubtfully not as good as the original, I have to say that I thought it was terrific.
"He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
I've been reading the Stephen King book Danse Macabre this week and in the section on television he claims that the original The Outer Limits was the best of the weird Twilight Zone style shows. I don't think I've ever seen that show over here. I remember Tales From The Darkside. That was low-budget but creepy if I remember.
Outer Limits was a sci-fi anthology show that aired on US television in the very early 60's. I remember watching it religiously in reruns when I was in my teens. Many of the stories were written by respected science fiction authors. I'd strongly urge to to check them out if you can. There was also a new series made in the mid 90's that was utterly forgettable and a poor followup to the original.
Here's a page that lists all the episodes; click on each one to get a brief summary. Some of my favorites include Demon With a Glass Hand, The Man Who Was Never Born, The Sixth Finger, The Zanti Misfits, Soldier and I, Robot.
I may have to look for this on DVD, it sounds like a lot of fun. There is something about black and white that adds to the atmosphere with things like this. I could never get into the new 'Twilight Zone' series in colour at all.
Anyone like the Phantasm movies? I thought that the first two were great; the last two in the franchise were highly unecessary.
Also, another film by Don Coscarelli, BUBBA HO TEP which was supposed to have horrific but comedic undertones. Has anyone seen this one? It has never come on cable and it's just hard to find at the local video shop.
I love the Phantasm films. A bald ice-cream man chasing a sinister grave-robber and his dwarf assistants across America ) The last one left a lot of questions up in the air and I hope Reggie and co can make at least one more. Ominously Phantasm is under consideration now for a reboot or reimagining or whatever they call it. Alarm bells always ring for me when they do that. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dawn Of The Dead are prime examples of how this 'revamp' usually goes pear-shaped.
I may have to look for this on DVD, it sounds like a lot of fun. There is something about black and white that adds to the atmosphere with things like this. I could never get into the new 'Twilight Zone' series in colour at all.
The first season of the new Twilight Zone had a few good shows; they adapted some classic sci-fi and horror short stories by noted authors like Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and even Arthur C. Clarke (who is probably my favorite author), but after that, things went downhill very quickly and, like the Outer Limits remake that followed it, most stories degenerated to poorly written adventures with sub-par production values and obvious and unimaginative O. Henry style surprise endings. Filming them in color only highlighted their shortcomings further for me. It would have been wiser, cheaper, and much more daring, to go black and white.
As for Phantasm and other slasher/gore type horror movies, I've never found those kinds of films particularly entertaining. I usually see the scares coming a mile away and they always end inconclusively, keeping things open for the always hoped for but rarely achieved sequel. I like my horror a little more stylish and subtle.
The one slasher film I did enjoy, as a guilty pleasure, was Friday the 13th Part 10: Jason X, wherein our titular antihero Jason Voorhees is frozen in suspended animation for his many crimes and reawakened hundreds of years later on a spaceship bound for a distant planet. The body count on this one goes literally into the thousands when Jason destroys a city in space; and towards the end Jason is augmented into a nearly indestructible killing machine. The dialog was beyond cheese and the acting as amateurish as a 4th grade play. But the cast knew this one was strictly for laughs and gleefully went along with it. The ending was also pretty innovative: Jason is ejected from the spaceship, falls into the atmosphere of New Earth, survives being burned alive during re-entry, and crashes into a carbon copy of Crystal Lake, all as a pair of lovers decide to go see where the falling star landed, thus bringing his saga full circle ... or something like that.
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I'm just about to pop The Other into the old DVD player. Haven't seen it in years and can't remember the plot, but I remember it as a good film.
John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" is brilliant. Probably the best "Creature" type movie (with "Alien") in my view as well (I still have a soft spot for James Arness in the spacesuit). The remake was really a case of movie technology catching up with the original short story, which the remake follows pretty closely.
Here's one for you guys: "The Changeling" with George C. Scott. Not a horror film by any means, but that's a good thing. I like "eerie" films rather than "scary" ones, and this is one of the best "haunted house" pictures ever. Watch it on Halloween.
There was a spoof documentary in Britain on Halloween night in 1992 called Ghostwatch which scared the living daylights out of some people and caused a lot of controversy. I don't think it'll ever be on again.
I've never heard of it. Is it a recent TV series in Britain?
I'll have to see if I can find the series somewhere. Hammer did make some classic horror films. Their first three Draculas have got to be my favorites. Christopher Lee and those plunging necklines -- didn't get any better than that when I was a teen.
Another very good horror movie is Creepshow, an anthology of three Stephen King short stories about one particularly memorable Father's Day, a henpecked husband who gets a monster to off his domineering wife, and a sadistic, reclusive, foul mouthed businessman (memorably played by the late E.G. Marshall) who has a peculiar fear of bugs. The stories all have a strong injection of dark humor and are as funny as they are gory. Just the thing to watch on Halloween.
Well if you ever come to the States, Arthur, don't visit Texas during the summer months.
They're mutant sized here and they fight back. Thank goodness I've never had to encounter one on that level yet.
Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
Given the time of year, I'm frankly astonished that no one has made a joke about Daniel Craig Halloween masks on this page yet
Romero teamed up with Dario Argento for another pretty cool anthology called Two Evil Eyes, particularly a segment which looked to be influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. Harvey Keitel and Adrienne Barbeau starred. *love her*
Halloween is my favorite holiday so you've got to watch John Carpenter's original. I'm not the biggest fan of what that classic film ushered in, (slashers), but definitely one that stands the test of time.
And as I'm sure fellow Trekker Tony already knows, the Michael Myers mask was originally a Shatner mask.
Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
I once met makeup guy Tom Savini at a sci-fi convention; he brought along that monster's mask and demonstrated how it worked...and affectionately called it Fluffy.
Never saw that one; I'll have to look for it. And Adrienne Barbeau is a fave of mine as well (I think I'll put on some highlights from Swamp Thing tonight). :x :x
Yes, there was. Although it was nowhere near as good as the original. It was a Dino DeLaurentiis production and presented adaptation of some of King's weaker stories. Only one of them (with a pre-pubescent Drew Barrymore) had any supernatural overtones to them. The other two were about a company that helps you quit smoking...or else; and a man forced walk around the ledge of a high-rise building without falling to his death. Overall, very forgettable.
I cannot for the life of me remember much about Creepshow 2 other than the one story about some teenagers on a raft menaced by some blob in the lake. It was very faithful to the short story, but in the end rather pointless.
The last tale from C2 was a remake of the classic TZ episode of the HitchHiker. Dr. Holly Goodhead just couldn't get away from a hitcher she had run over.
"Hey Lady, how about a ride?" (It was pretty forgettable)
I just recently read King's short story that this was based on (Quitters, Inc. or something like that). From what I recall of the segment, it was very faithful to the story...right down to the shot at the end of the woman missing her little finger. Same goes for the one where he was forced to walk around the ledge ( I think that one was called ... "The Ledge"
The recent Nightmares and Dreamscapes anthology that was on TNT also had some very good (and scary) King adaptations. In particular, The Road Virus Heads North (another painting comes to life story) was very very creepy.
Of course, no Halloween evening would be complete without watching It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Watching that on October 31 is a tradition that for me goes back over 30 years and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.
Asian horror has that creep factor that I love; I mean one can only take so much of the slasher genre...
I wish American filmakers can get back to actually scaring its audiences without the help of hacking other countries' ideas - or have I become jaded to it all over the years?
Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
Agree about "Seven," ben, Fincher nailed that genre. Lovely character work in that film.
Best Hammer: "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" I think, they just seemed to be hitting on every cyclinder with that one, even if Lee didn't have one line of dialogue in it. As for those wacky Italian/Bava films, just couldn't get into his 360 degree pans that took a whole reel to complete.
"Night of the Living Dead" may have the best feeling of dread and horror in a film, completely depressing and draining. Also rank highly: "Carpenter's The Thing," "The Exorcist," "Alien," "Cape Fear" (with Peck and Mitchum)...ah, probably not thinking of a bunch of good'uns.
But the scariest movie ever is: "Jaws." Because there ARE things out there that will eat you...and Spielburg did a great job with that story.
I used to watch this all of the time until they got too cheesy close to the end of its run.
Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
I think they air during primetime (8:00pm - 11:00pm); I saw some shows last Monday and thought it was a one-time airing.
I loved the orginal Outer Limits. It's a quality show, as good as The Twilight Zone but they had differences. It wasn't a show that used black humor nearly as much as TWZ (and it didn't have Serling's wry cynicism or moralizing). It was more dramatic which fit with it's hour format that also gave it the opportunity to explore it's themes more fully. It's top notch Sci-Fi.
MBE
Outer Limits was a sci-fi anthology show that aired on US television in the very early 60's. I remember watching it religiously in reruns when I was in my teens. Many of the stories were written by respected science fiction authors. I'd strongly urge to to check them out if you can. There was also a new series made in the mid 90's that was utterly forgettable and a poor followup to the original.
Here's a page that lists all the episodes; click on each one to get a brief summary. Some of my favorites include Demon With a Glass Hand, The Man Who Was Never Born, The Sixth Finger, The Zanti Misfits, Soldier and I, Robot.
http://epguides.com/OuterLimits_1963/
Also, another film by Don Coscarelli, BUBBA HO TEP which was supposed to have horrific but comedic undertones. Has anyone seen this one? It has never come on cable and it's just hard to find at the local video shop.
Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
I may have to look for this on DVD, it sounds like a lot of fun. There is something about black and white that adds to the atmosphere with things like this. I could never get into the new 'Twilight Zone' series in colour at all.
I love the Phantasm films. A bald ice-cream man chasing a sinister grave-robber and his dwarf assistants across America
The first season of the new Twilight Zone had a few good shows; they adapted some classic sci-fi and horror short stories by noted authors like Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, and even Arthur C. Clarke (who is probably my favorite author), but after that, things went downhill very quickly and, like the Outer Limits remake that followed it, most stories degenerated to poorly written adventures with sub-par production values and obvious and unimaginative O. Henry style surprise endings. Filming them in color only highlighted their shortcomings further for me. It would have been wiser, cheaper, and much more daring, to go black and white.
As for Phantasm and other slasher/gore type horror movies, I've never found those kinds of films particularly entertaining. I usually see the scares coming a mile away and they always end inconclusively, keeping things open for the always hoped for but rarely achieved sequel. I like my horror a little more stylish and subtle.
The one slasher film I did enjoy, as a guilty pleasure, was Friday the 13th Part 10: Jason X, wherein our titular antihero Jason Voorhees is frozen in suspended animation for his many crimes and reawakened hundreds of years later on a spaceship bound for a distant planet. The body count on this one goes literally into the thousands when Jason destroys a city in space; and towards the end Jason is augmented into a nearly indestructible killing machine. The dialog was beyond cheese and the acting as amateurish as a 4th grade play. But the cast knew this one was strictly for laughs and gleefully went along with it. The ending was also pretty innovative: Jason is ejected from the spaceship, falls into the atmosphere of New Earth, survives being burned alive during re-entry, and crashes into a carbon copy of Crystal Lake, all as a pair of lovers decide to go see where the falling star landed, thus bringing his saga full circle ... or something like that.